11 SIMI activists get life imprisonment
BHOPAL\INDORE: Eleven Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists, including former SIMI national general secretary Safdar Nagori were given life terms by a special court in Indore on Monday.
Public prosecutor Vimal Kumar Mishra special judge B K Paloda read out the judgement to the accused over video conferencing. Ten of the accused are lodged in Sabarmati jail, the 11th Munroz Jaman who was on bail was also taken into custody.
All of them had been arrested from Shyam Nagar in Indore in March 27, 2008 by a joint team of Indore and Dhar police. Apart from Safdar, others who were sentenced were Kamruddin Nagori, the Madhya Pradesh president of SIMI, who hails from Ujjain, Kamran, resident of Khandwa, Ameel Parvez, resident of Unhel, Ujjain, Peedical Shiblee, a big name in the national level SIMI organization, his brother Shaduli Peedical, Hafiz Hussain who is the Karnataka State chief of SIMI, Mohammad Yasin, of Belgaum and member of Karnataka SIMI unit, Mirza Ahmed Baig, Munroz Jaman, and Khalid Ahmed.
At the time of their arrest the police had recovered seven pistols and 32 live cartridges of 9 mm, two computers, numerous discs, nine mobile phones, cash of ₹45,000, 15 masks, surgical equipment.
Police also found were newspaper cutting of various train blasts including Samjhauta blast from their possession . Later the police seized explosives, some more ammunition and inflammatory literature from a farmhouse in Choral, near Indore, where a terror camp had been organized to train the SIMI activists in horse riding, shooting, close combat and on SIMI ideology.
Safdar, who hails from Mahidpur Ujjain, was the SIMI linchpin and had a reward of ₹50,000 at the time of his arrest. He had been absconding since 2001.
He did his masters in journalism from Vikram University. His thesis was on the Kashmir problem titled, ‘ Varg Ki Aag’ and much of what is being said by the militants at present in Kashmir has startling similarities with Nagori’s thesis.
Giving details of the conviction, public prosecutor Mishra said that the accused were given three life terms, under Section 122 and Section 124 (a) of IPC dealing with anti-national activity, and under Section 4 of Explosives Act. They were given three years jail under Arms Act and varying jail terms under other sections under Prevention of Unlawful Activity Act, 1967. All the sentences will run concurrently.
THE ACCUSED WERE GIVEN LIFE TERM FOR BECOMING A PART OF ‘ANTINATIONAL’ ACTS , VIOLATING PROVISIONS OF THE ARMS ACT